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Feðgar á ferð is Brú's most famous work and was translated into Danish in 1962 (Fattigmandsære), to German in 1966 (Des armen Mannes Ehre, a translation of the Danish title), and to English by John F. West in 1970 under the title of The Old Man and his Sons. This was the first novel to be translated from Faroese into English, and has been ...
An old man has a number of sons who constantly quarrel with each other. As he nears death he calls them to him and gives them an object lesson in the need for unity. Having bound a bundle of sticks together (or in other accounts either spears or arrows), he asks his sons to break them.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first edition in 1884, traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to ...
Oxford Dictionary of English: Oxford University Press: 1998 3rd (ISBN 0-19-957112-0) 2010 2,112 355,000 British: IPA: Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Oxford University Press: 1895 2nd (20 vols., ISBN 0-19-861186-2) 1989 21,730 291,500 British: IPA: Random House Webster's: Random House: 1966 2nd (rev., ISBN 978-0375425998) 2002 2,256 315,000 ...
Chief editors of the OED [1] [dead link ]; Name Dates of chief editorship Notes Herbert Coleridge: 1858–61: Preliminary work. Died in office. Frederick J. Furnivall
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The entire first Folio edition is available on A Dictionary of the English Language [45] as an electronic scan. As of April 15, 2021, A Dictionary of the English Language will become Johnsons Dictionary Online, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and created by a team of scholars at the University of Central Florida ...